This Academy-Award nominated film addresses issues such as the souring of the American dream for U.S. workers and how racism takes hold in communities.
Directed and produced by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima, it relates the stark facts of Vincent Chin\'s brutal murder. A 27-year-old Chinese-American, Chin was beaten to death by a Chrysler Motors foreman following a series of ethnic insults at a bar in Detroit in 1982. The film examines the failure of our judicial system to value every citizen\'s rights equally and the collapse of the automobile industry under pressure from Japanese imports.
A post-show discussion will focus on the contemporary struggle to foster solidarity between immigrant and native-born workers.
The March 12 screening is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service. It is co-sponsored by United Auto Workers Local 879.
Other upcoming films in the Labor & Community Series:
Thursday, April 10 – "Bloody Saturday," about the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Screens at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Metrodome, Minneapolis, in conjunction with the United Association for Labor Education conference.
Wednesday, May 7 – "The Cradle Will Rock," a fictionalized account of the real-life, groundbreaking Federal Theater Project and the political and social upheaval of the Great Depression. Screens at 7 p.m. at Merriam Park Library in St. Paul in conjunction with the Untold Stories event series.
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This Academy-Award nominated film addresses issues such as the souring of the American dream for U.S. workers and how racism takes hold in communities.
Directed and produced by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima, it relates the stark facts of Vincent Chin\’s brutal murder. A 27-year-old Chinese-American, Chin was beaten to death by a Chrysler Motors foreman following a series of ethnic insults at a bar in Detroit in 1982. The film examines the failure of our judicial system to value every citizen\’s rights equally and the collapse of the automobile industry under pressure from Japanese imports.
A post-show discussion will focus on the contemporary struggle to foster solidarity between immigrant and native-born workers.
The March 12 screening is sponsored by the University of Minnesota Labor Education Service. It is co-sponsored by United Auto Workers Local 879.
Other upcoming films in the Labor & Community Series:
Thursday, April 10 – "Bloody Saturday," about the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Screens at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Metrodome, Minneapolis, in conjunction with the United Association for Labor Education conference.
Wednesday, May 7 – "The Cradle Will Rock," a fictionalized account of the real-life, groundbreaking Federal Theater Project and the political and social upheaval of the Great Depression. Screens at 7 p.m. at Merriam Park Library in St. Paul in conjunction with the Untold Stories event series.